# home-assistant-manager

Manage remote Home Assistant YAML configs, run validation via SSH, deploy updates, and verify automation state through logs or traces.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · ★ 976
- Author: komal-SkyNET
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/komal-SkyNET/claude-skill-homeassistant/tree/HEAD/skills/home-assistant-manager/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-07-04
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/home-assistant-manager

## What it does

The skill treats your local repository as the Home Assistant `/config` directory. Edits stay local until deployed. It updates automations, scripts, scenes, templates, and Lovelace dashboards while strictly ignoring `.env` and `secrets.yaml`. Updates ship to the host either through git pull or rapid `scp` transfers.

Remote execution relies on SSH `ha`, REST calls via `hass-cli`, or Home Assistant MCP servers. It isolates safe reloads from full restarts. Running `ha core check` prevents broken restarts during core configuration edits. Without `HASS_SERVER` and `HASS_TOKEN` in your shell environment, `hass-cli` connects to localhost and errors immediately.

## Requirements
- Works with: Home Assistant

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add komal-SkyNET/claude-skill-homeassistant --skill home-assistant-manager -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/home-assistant-manager/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/home-assistant-manager/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add komal-SkyNET/claude-skill-homeassistant --skill home-assistant-manager -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/home-assistant-manager/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add komal-SkyNET/claude-skill-homeassistant --skill home-assistant-manager -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/home-assistant-manager/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install komal-SkyNET/claude-skill-homeassistant home-assistant-manager
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/home-assistant-manager/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add komal-SkyNET/claude-skill-homeassistant --skill home-assistant-manager -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/komal-SkyNET/claude-skill-homeassistant --path skills/home-assistant-manager
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/home-assistant-manager/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add komal-SkyNET/claude-skill-homeassistant --skill home-assistant-manager -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/komal-SkyNET/claude-skill-homeassistant/tree/HEAD/skills/home-assistant-manager/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- edit automations and scripts without exposing sensitive keys in secrets.yaml
- validate configuration with ha core check prior to host restarts
- trigger automations manually and verify execution traces in core logs
- push config updates to the remote instance using git pull or scp

## Example prompts
- Check automations.yaml syntax and reload the automation domain over SSH
- Deploy script changes with scp and verify the logs for errors
- Manually trigger automation.living_room_lights and fetch entity state

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: home-assistant-manager
description: Manage Home Assistant configuration safely and fast — edit and deploy YAML (automations, blueprints, scripts, scenes, templates, MQTT), validate with ha core check, deploy via git or rapid scp, reload-vs-restart correctly, verify changes from logs, traces and entity state, and build Lovelace dashboards. Use for any Home Assistant config, automation, template, or dashboard work over SSH/hass-cli/MCP.
---

# Home Assistant Manager

Operate a remote Home Assistant instance precisely: make a change, get it live, prove it
worked. Optimize for the fewest safe round-trips.

## Assumptions
- The repo you're editing **is** the HA `/config` dir, git-connected to the instance.
  Edits aren't live until pulled on the instance.
- `root@homeassistant.local` in examples is a placeholder. Resolve the real user/host once
  (project CLAUDE.md, `~/.ssh/config`, or ask) and if it isn't recorded in the project
  CLAUDE.md yet, add it so future sessions skip this step.
- Access via one or more of: `hass-cli` (REST), SSH `ha`, or an MCP server (see below).
- Only edit `.yaml`/`.yml`/`.md`. Never read/write `.env` or `secrets.yaml`; use `!secret`.

## Remote access — pick the right tool
- **SSH `ha`** — always works, needs no local env. Use for `ha core check|restart|logs|info`.
- **`hass-cli`** (REST) — state/service calls, but needs `HASS_SERVER`/`HASS_TOKEN` in the
  shell *before* the session starts. If they're unset, hass-cli falls back to the wrong
  host (localhost) and errors — don't retry, check `[ -n "$HASS_TOKEN" ]` once, then use
  SSH or MCP instead.
- **MCP** (preferred when available) — first-class tools for live state/control, no env
  juggling. Official `mcp_server` integration (HA core ≥2025.2) or community `ha-mcp`
  (richer, 80+ tools). Use it instead of shelling out when present.

## The deploy pipeline (the one canonical flow)
Changes are not live until step 4.
1. Edit YAML locally.
2. Validate: `ssh root@homeassistant.local "ha core check"` (slow, ~30-60s — see "when to
   skip" below).
3. Commit + push: `git add … && git commit -m "…" && git push`.
4. **Make it live:** `ssh root@homeassistant.local "cd /config && git pull"`.
5. Apply: **reload** if possible, else **restart** (table below).
6. Verify (next section).

**Rapid iteration:** skip git and `scp` straight to the instance, then reload — good for
dashboards and tight test loops. Commit to git only once stable.
`scp automations.yaml root@homeassistant.local:/config/` → reload.

**When to skip `ha core check`:** it parses the whole config and is slow. For an isolated
YAML edit you're confident in, a domain reload surfaces errors faster and the logs tell
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